Hair By Ruth

Hair Facts

• On average, a hair strand's life span is five and a half years.
• Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body.
• Hair is actually dead material when it leaves its root - otherwise it would hurt very much when your hairdresser works with his scissors. Most people know that, but do you know about these facts:
• A blonde head of hair has usually much more strands than red or dark hair heads.
• Hair consists mainly of keratin(bonding agent for fusion extensions), which is also responsible for the elasticity of fingernails.
• Even on a good hair day, everyone loses at least 40 to 100 strands.
• The average scalp has 100,000 strands, or just fewer than 1000 per square inch.  On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs.  Blondes have the most hair with about 120,000 hairs.
• We are born with all our hair follicles. Some are programmed to grow pigmented hair (as on our scalp) up to 3 feet in length.
• In America in '96, 38 million men and 19 million women experience common hair loss determined by heredity.
• The trait for baldness can be passed down through paternal or maternal genes.
• Hormone imbalance and crash dieting can trigger temporary hair loss.
• On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving.
• In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times.
• The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair color.
• The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head.
• Female hair grows more slowly than male hair.
• Humidity stretches the hair.
• Hair grows faster in warm weather.
• Cutting hair does not influence its growth.